We have a special guest joining Alpha Flight today.
My name is Garrett Goody, and I am the as the Pediatric Gaming Technology Manager at Child’s Play. I was previously the Therapeutic Gaming and Technology Specialist at Seattle Children’s hospital for 5 years. While at Seattle Children’s I started the now thriving program and helped expand it (with help from Child’s Play) from just myself to two full time FTE positions. I learned a lot about what’s important in the role during this time, coming up with a training, onboard, and hiring system for expanding a solo job into a team. Other than program expansion, during my time I engaged in large scale collaborations with Microsoft, Nintendo, and Bungie. This included on site demonstrations of therapeutic gaming as well as cross company collaborations to help the hospital program. The entirety of my time there I was also commonly the public face of our program, from panels at PAX, presentations at the Pediatric Gaming Symposium, and calls to action at smaller gatherings such as XBOX MVP events. I'm also an avid gamer and would love to challenge anyone at Smash Bros.
We asked for Jacob, Erika, and Mikey as Final Fantasy XIV classes and you delivered.
First our honorable mentions
And our winner
Congratulations to Ethan Pugsley
We have silent auctions ending soon. Get your bids in before they end.
First we have the Pokemon Starter Cross-stitch set.
Have you ever had a hard time choosing your Pokémon starter? Now you don't have to with this set of three, 11-inch cross-stitch hoops! All of the starters from Generation 1 to the latest Generation 9 are gathered together and ready to be displayed on your wall for all to see. This set is one-of-a kind. It was loving crafted through hours of trial and error, from a cross-stitch generation program to numerous replaced threads for the best color representations. Canvases have been washed but may still contain traces of pet hair!
To bid go here.
Next we have the Ghibli Watercolour Milestone Cards
Are you or someone you know growing a new human? Congratulations! These milestone cards were designed to help you keep a tenuous hold on linear time as your life fills with joy, poop, and no sleep. They can add helpful monthly signposts to the endless stream of baby photos that are about to fill your phone. Celebrating the re-retirement of renowned filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, each month features an iconic* character or vehicle from the twelve films he directed.
To bid go here.
Are you a Final Fantasy 14 fan? Why am I asking you're watching Alpha Flight. With this fact in mind, you're going to want to enter to win this amazing Final Fantasy 14 bundle.
Scions! Celebrate 10 years of Final Fantasy XIV with this collection of goodies straight from the 2023 Final Fantasy Fan Festival.
This pack includes the Fan Festival bag, an exclusive 10th anniversary satchel, which comes stuffed with a 10th anniversary pin, a Grebuloff magnet, Azem's Crystal keychain, a Loporrit pen, and a stress ball shaped like everyone's favourite low polygon grapes from Endwalker!
The donor has also tossed in a Great Serpent of Ronka plushie keychain, two Minion Miniature figure blind boxes, and a booster pack for the Final Fantasy trading card game Dawn of Heroes expansion.
Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival Bag (includes pen, magnet, keychain, pin, stress grapes) 2 FFXIV figure blind boxes, one Great Serpent of Ronka plushie key chain, one pack FFXIV trading card booster.
To enter donate $7.14 or multiples there of before 5:30PM PST.
Steve Jackson has put out a ton of games over the years. Several have gone out of print. If you wanted a copy of Ghosts Love Candy or Munchkins 2010 holiday edition, then here is your chance to win them.
Are you a Christmas Person or a Halloween Person? Well, with this pair of out of print games from Steve Jackson Games, your don't have to choose!
Ghosts Love Candy is a fun card game where your team of ghosts possess trick-or-treaters on Halloween so you can gobble up as much candy as possible.
Munchkin 2010 Holiday Edition was a Barnes & Noble exclusive release that includes Munchkin, as well as a host of holiday themed bonuses, including two Christmas coins, a Munchkin greeting card, and a bookmark that gives a bonus in play!
To win donate $9.10 or multiples there of before 4:15 PM PST.
We would like to thank prize sponsor Wizards of the Coast. Wizards of the Coast has been a long time sponsor of Desert Bus for Hope. As the current makers of Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: the Gathering, we are thankful for their continued prize support.
Thanks Wizards.
We have a live aution today at 3:00 PM PST and we've got a big one.
Greetings warriors of charity,
In the name of helping the children of Eorzea, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn have collaborated with Garlond Ironworks to unearth this ancient relic from our vaults.
Sadly the aether that used to flow through this sword in ages past is now depleted, but it still looks just as striking for you fashion-concious red mages out there to strut your stuff at the next PAX Limsa-Lominsa, or you can simply display it in your Free Company house as a testament to battles won, and bonds forged.
- Tataru Taru
This replica of the Antiquated Margulis Red Mage sword from Final Fantasy XIV is 3D printed in photopolymer resin and reinforced with steel rods throughout. It measures 150cm by 40cm and weighs 4.5Kg. This replica is made up of 35 separate pieces and took over 100 hours of continuous printing to produce. Finished with acrylic paints and wax polishes, it's a highly detailed and accurate re-creation of the in-game sword.
This auction begins at 3:00 PM. To bid you need to be in chat and have a donor account.
Everyone needs tea towles. And everyone loves DND. Why not have both together with these hand embroidered DND towels.
Welcome! You all meet in a tavern. Roll a d20. DC17 to resist these embroidered tea towels. Sorry, you’ve failed! You are now charmed by these towels.
All 3 of these tea towels have a statement you would not want your DM to say in game on one end and a design picked by the maker on the other end. These towels measure approx. 25” x 14” and are 100% cotton. The huck embroidery work is 100% cotton embroidery floss. Wash warm by hand or on gentle cycle.
To be entered to win, donate $8.81 or multiples there of. Entries will close at 1:30 PM PST.
Somehow, even though it's only day three, we all were feeling a bit eepy today...
But we kept it going just for you! And we even found the present Zeta left us...
Praise the almighty button, I guess?
Today, as usual, we started with a game of Coffee Pong. Matt v Ashley, in a very wild game of frantic throwing!
Ashley managed to win it out in the end, and celebrated with a nice chugging of the excess coffee.
But that wasn't the only game!! As a celebration for Meagan's last day, we pit her against "technically the reigning champ" James Turner!
And despite the odds being against Megan...
And definitely no...rules bending....
She managed to win it out in the end! So congrats to Meaghan, and we will miss your...youthful energy!
Of course once we were done with that, we had to play the daily gameshow! Today's was a custom game of You Don't Know Jack! We got to listen to Ian talk about building stuff...and Beej being Beej. It was a fun time so definitely give it a watch for some fun!
And then we got to be graced with the digital presence of Liz! We miss her dearly, but at least we got to do some chatting and some DISTANCE JENGA!
.....Liz we are very disappointed in your preformance.
But it's ok, she got a second round against Ashton, and she won that one! Technically!
We were so happy to laugh and to cry with Liz, sharing in our joys and grief, and even discussed how close we are to.....$10 MILLION LIFETIME?!
And please don't ask about the bag of hair. It's for the best.
But we are starting to get sleepy again, so we unfortunately need to get out of here so we can be ready for another day. So as much as we'd love to stick around...we'll see you tomorrow!
Just make sure you don't forget your stage friend as you make your way out.